impermanence

No village law, no law of market town,
No law of a single house is this—

Of all the world and the worlds of gods
This only is the Law, that all things are impermanent.


-- "Buddhist Parables," translated by E.W. Burlingame
(from "Teachings of the Buddha," edited by Jack Kornfield, 1993)


At left: "Mujo." Also: "anitya" in Sanskrit, "wuchang" in Mandarin, "mi rtag pa" in Tibetan, "impermanence" in English
// via The Invisible Cat